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This Month In Clay Target Nation

August 25, 2025 By hdyer

The September issue of Clay Target Nation is packed with event coverage as well as tips and advice from our experts.

In our Training Tips columns, John Shima reminds shooters to accept their skills where they are while striving for improvement, and Gil Ash explains that some target presentations really are better shot with an unmounted gun.

Sporting clays’ two big international events, the World FITASC and World English Sporting Clays Championship, are both covered in this issue, and you can read all about how the USA Sporting Clays Team fared against the rest of the world. We also have coverage of the Kolar Mid-America.

In our “From the Archives” article celebrating CTN’s 10th anniversary, we are rerunning an article from 2026 discussing a question that’s still being asked today: “Are sporting targets getting too hard?” On the skeet side, Paul Giambrone III has some advice for anyone who is struggling to close out that elusive 100 straight, and we take a deep dive into the guns used by top shooters Billy D. Williams, Sheaffer Stanfill and reigning HOA World Champion John Barnes. Finally, don’t miss Phil Bourjaily’s review of the Beretta 688.

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  • Decot
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  • Fabarm
  • Federal
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  • Laporte
  • Lazy J Sporting Club
  • Lockton Affinity
  • MEC Outdoors
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  • Negrini
  • NWTF
  • Orion Outdoors
  • Pacific Sporting Arms
  • Paxton Arms
  • Promatic
  • Remington
  • Robert Louis Company
  • Safari Club International (SCI)
  • Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation
  • Sportsman’s Insurance Agency, Inc. (SIAI)
  • Syren
  • Teague Chokes
  • Winchester/White Flyer
  • Wrapid Comb
  • Zoli

Clay Target Nation is available monthly to all members in digital and/or print form. Not a member? You can receive the next issue when you join at http://nssa-nsca.org/join-nssa-nsca/.

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K-80 Raffle Winner Announced

October 30, 2022 By hdyer

On Friday, October 28, during the Top Gun Shoot-Out at the National Sporting Clays Championship, a drawing was held for the winner of the Krieghoff K-80 raffle. Congratulations to Bill Wilford of Musella, Georgia, who was drawn as the winner of the gun, and he will have his choice of a K-80 Pro Sporter, Sporter, or Parcours model with gold standard engraving and color case-hardened finish. The retail value of the shotgun is $23,090.

A total of 460 tickets were sold. Proceeds from the raffle help to fund the USA Sporting Clays Team as well as the NSSA and NSCA All-American Teams.

Thank you to Krieghoff for the generous donation and to all those who purchased tickets.

Filed Under: NSCA News, NSSA News

Win a Krieghoff K-80!

February 4, 2022 By hdyer 2 Comments

krieghoff masters k-80 raffle ticketIf you’re headed to the duPont/Krieghoff – Krieghoff – White Flyer Masters this spring — and even if you’re not — you don’t want to miss your chance to participate in a special raffle sponsored by Forest City Gun Club.

The Masters, held April 28 – May 1, 2022, at Forest City in Savannah, Georgia, is always a highlight of the skeet season for many shooters. The winner of this raffle will have their choice of a standard-grade K-80 with a maximum value of $12,895 (see gun details in the graphic).

Three hundred tickets are available, and each ticket costs $100. The winner will be drawn at the 2022 duPont/Krieghoff – Krieghoff – White Flyer Masters.

You do not have to attend the Masters in order to purchase a ticket, and you do not have to be present to win. To purchase tickets, call Forest City Gun Club at (912) 354-0210 or call the NSSA at (210) 688-3371 ext. 962.

Filed Under: homepage section 4, NSSA News

2021 World Shoot Photo Gallery

October 22, 2021 By hdyer

Whether you missed the World Skeet Championships this year and want to get a peek at the action, or you were there and are hoping to relive the memories, please enjoy this selection of photos from the 2021 World Shoot.

Click on a photo to enlarge.

Photos by Lefty Ray Chapa and Josh Poole

 

HOA winners
.410 winners
28-Gauge Winners
20-Gauge winners
12-Gauge winners
Doubles winners
Wayne Mayes Championship winners
Mini World HOA winners

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Houston Deshotels Wins HOA at 2021 World Skeet Championships

October 10, 2021 By hdyer

2021 World Skeet Championships HOA winners, left to right: Steven Wood, third; Houston Deshotels, champion; and Taylor Nicosia, runner-up

The NSSA congratulates Houston Deshotels, who won both HOA and HAA at the 2021 World Skeet Championships, held October 4-8 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio.

Deshotels was perfect going into Friday’s .410 bore event, where he dropped only one target to finish the World Skeet Championships with a score of 449. Taylor Nicosia, who had dropped a target earlier in the week in the 28-gauge event, shot 100 straight in the .410 to tie Deshotels at 449 for HOA. Deshotels was the victor in the shoot-off, giving him his first HOA World Skeet Championship. He was also Triple-Sub Champion. Nicosia finished as HOA runner-up and Lady Champion. She also won Lady Champion in the Wayne Mayes Championship event, Lady runner-up in the 20-gauge and the .410, and Lady third in the 28-gauge and doubles.

Steven Wood, Cooper Oliver and Dessislav Ivanov battled it out in a shoot-off of 447s for the third spot on the HOA podium; Ivanov went out first and finished AAA1. Oliver went out next, finishing AA1, which left Wood as HOA third. Other class winners were Katie Hunt, A1; Tim Robinson, B1; Katie Lackey, C1; Michael Rykaczewski Sr., D1; and Steve Scales, E1. Katherine Adams was Lady runner-up, and Lauren Burge was Lady third.

With a score of 549, Deshotels was also HAA Champion, with Nicosia runner-up (547) and Ivanov third (546).

Also winning World Championships were Josh Poole, doubles and .410 bore; Robert Hicklin, 12-gauge; Michael Schmidt, 20-gauge; and Ryan Smithart, 28-gauge.

The previous weekend, at the Mini World, HOA winners included Alessandro Vitale, champion; Mike Woolard, runner-up; and Riley Chaddock, third. Vitale was also HAA Champion. Taylor Nicosia won doubles, Edward Smith won the 12-gauge, Michael Rykaczewski Jr. won the 20-gauge, and Josh Poole won the .410 bore. Wayne Mayes Championship winners were Ivanov, champion; Paul Newman, runner-up; and Nicosia, third.

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